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Pittsburgh police investigating reported assault of Lyft driver
Pittsburgh police are investigating the reported assault of a Lyft driver in Shadyside. The driver told police he was transporting a man and two women around 2 a.m. Sunday. The man started arguing with the driver, accusing him of taking a longer route to their destination and ordering the driver...
Pa. woman killed when she falls into meat grinder at work
MUNCY, Pa. — Authorities say a woman was killed when she fell into a meat grinder at a processing plant in northern Pennsylvania. It’s not clear what caused the accident at the Economy Locker Storage Company in Muncy. The Lycoming County coroner’s office says 35-year-old Jill Greninger apparently fell around...
100 arrested for suspected DUI over Easter weekend in Southwestern Pa.
State trooper arrested 100 drivers in the region on suspicion of drunken driving during the Easter holiday weekend, according to state police. Troopers in three local troops investigated 106 crashes, including a Friday weather-related collision in Indiana County that killed two people. Thirty people were injured in those crashes, according...
Water main break floods Penn Avenue in PittsburghVideo
A broken water main break turned Penn Avenue in Downtown Pittsburgh into a river early Wednesday morning, reported Tribune-Review news partner WPXI . The water has been turned off, but the burst pipe ripped up the sidewalk and scattered debris on the road near the Gateway T Station. The road...
Democrats clash with Trump officials on subpoenas, tax returnsVideo
WASHINGTON — The struggle between House Democrats and the Trump administration over investigations intensified Tuesday as a former White House official defied a subpoena and the Treasury Department ignored a deadline for providing President Trump’s tax returns. Rep. Elijah Cummings, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said the White...
Americans getting more inactive, computers partly to blame
Americans are becoming increasingly sedentary, spending almost a third of their waking hours sitting down, and computer use is partly to blame, a new study found. Over almost a decade, average daily sitting time increased by roughly an hour, to about eight hours for U.S. teens and almost 61⁄2 hours...
2-cent fee proposed for single-use plastic bags in Pennsylvania
Earlier this month, PennEnvironment joined forces with Pennsylvania House Democrats to announce its “Zero Waste PA” package of 13 bills looking to tackle a number of litter and pollution problems. According to PennLive, the proposals range from “creating a 5-cent beverage bottle and can deposit program and raising fines for...
Brewery owners seek ‘clarity and parity’ at beer tax hearing
At a public hearing examining a new beer tax in Pennsylvania, Adam Harris of the Brewers of Pennsylvania made it clear what brewery owners want. “We want clarity. Because of different rules, there is confusion,” Harris said. “I’ve been going around the state talking to our brewers, and they’re very...
Mt. Pleasant Twp. teen races to marry sweetheart after rare cancer returns
The way Brady Hunker figures it, he doesn’t have any time to lose. On Thursday, he asked his high school sweetheart, Mollie Landman, 18, of West Newton to marry him. She said — yes. Although they’re as happy as any newly engaged couple could be, they face an uncertain future....
Witness in NCAA basketball corruption trial says he paid Pitt, Penn State players
A continuing trial into corruption in NCAA basketball took a turn into college football Tuesday, when a former Pittsburgh financial adviser said he paid players from several major football programs, including Pitt and Penn State. Marty Blazer, an informant for federal investigators into their probe of payments made to college...
Stocks rally to record on earnings surprisesVideo
The S&P 500 hit an all-time high Tuesday, marking the stock market’s complete recovery from a nosedive at the end of last year. The benchmark index’s previous record was set last September, shortly before the market sank in the fourth quarter amid fears of a recession, an escalating trade war...
Pennsylvania Congressman John Joyce takes back claims of tuberculosis-infected migrants crossing border
U.S. Rep. John Joyce, a Blair County Republican, is walking back his assertion that 12 cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis were being treated last week among migrants who had crossed the Mexican border and sought asylum in Yuma, Ariz. The freshman Congressman’s about-face came after a spokesman for the Yuma County...
Dalai Lama’s personal doctor visits Pittsburgh, teaches mindfulnessVideo
Dr. Barry Kerzin had two questions growing up in California that propelled him to become a family medical doctor, Buddhist monk and personal physician for the 14th Dalai Lama. He hasn’t quite yet answered the first — “Who am I?” — but he’s pretty sure of the second. “To me,...
Even light rain increases your risk of a deadly car crash
WASHINGTON — Even light rain significantly increases your risk of a fatal car crash, a new study finds. The wetter the roads, the deadlier they become, with rain, snow and ice increasing the risk of deadly car crashes by 34 percent, according to a study this week in the Bulletin...
Consumers are hanging onto old mobile phones in record numbers
Wireless customers are hanging on to their old phones longer than ever. That’s the message from Verizon Communications Inc., which said its upgrade rate fell to a record low last quarter – a harbinger of tough times ahead for the iPhone and other devices. Faced with $1,000 price tags on...
Pittsburgh publicity video gets a seat in Times SquareVideo
Pittsburgh is inviting the world to have a seat in the Steel City. That’s the message in the latest marketing campaign launched on Tuesday by VisitPittsburgh, Allegheny County’s official tourist promotion agency. VisitPittsburgh parlayed Western Pennsylvanians’ quirk for using chairs placed curbside to save a parking space into a video...
Trump baby blimp is back, could be even bigger for UK visit
The balloon that depicted Donald Trump in a diaper during protests against his visit to the United Kingdom in July will return in June. The Donald Trump baby blimp will fly again during Trump’s three-day state visit in the first week of June and could be joined by an even...
McKeesport school officials say they did not block Black Student UnionVideo
McKeesport Area School District officials on Tuesday refuted claims in a civil rights lawsuit that they are trying to thwart formation of a Black Student Union. Superintendent Mark Holtzman, who is named as a defendant in the lawsuit along with the district, told reporters that the American Civil Liberties Union...
Pennsylvania is tops in craft beer production, brewers group says
Pennsylvania is ranked No. 1 in the country in one craft beer category — production. The state’s 354 breweries produced more than 3.7 million barrels of craft beer last year, more than in any other state in the nation, according to statistics compiled by the Colorado-based Brewers Association, a national...
Walgreens to hike minimum age for store tobacco sales
Walgreens has decided to raise its minimum age for tobacco sales several weeks after a top federal official chastised the drugstore chain for violating laws restricting access to cigarettes and other products. Walgreens said Tuesday that it will require customers to be at least 21 years old to purchase tobacco...
Western Pennsylvania’s first rebranded Dunkin’ opens in Pleasant HillsVideo
Dunkin’ opened its first rebranded store in Western Pennsylvania on Tuesday. No “Donuts” here in Pleasant Hills. Just Dunkin’. “We all know that America runs on Dunkin’ and we’re excited to make it easier for Western Pennsylvania residents to run on Dunkin’ too,” Anthony Braun, chief operating and financial officer...
2 passengers caught with guns on same day at Pittsburgh International Airport
A California man tried taking a revolver in his carry-on bags at Pittsburgh International Airport on Monday, just hours after a West Virginia woman was caught with a loaded handgun, officials said. Transportation Security Administration officers stopped the Chula Vista man at the checkpoint after they found a .22-caliber revolver...
Police: Man who lost prosthetic in dumpster slept there to avoid ‘chaos’ at home
A man sleeping in a dumpster in McKees Rocks, who lost his prosthetic leg when he got tossed into the back of a garbage truck, was not homeless, authorities said. The man, whose name has not been released, has a home in the neighborhood but left to escape what authorities...
Saudi Arabia beheads 37 citizens for terrorism crimes; pins bodies to poles
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabia beheaded 37 Saudi citizens for what it said Tuesday were terrorism-related crimes, the Interior Ministry said, publicly pinning two of the bodies to a pole as a warning to others. The report said the executions were carried out by beheading and that two...
Free tree seedlings offered in Pittsburgh on Arbor Day
Allegheny County’s trees are in trouble. This Arbor Day, there’s something you can do about it. “It literally means ‘tree day,’ so one of the requirements on Arbor Day is that you plant a tree,” said Joe Stavish, community education coordinator with Tree Pittsburgh. This year, Arbor Day falls on...
